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Cyrus Jackson’s Note: This is a guest post post by Praveen Verma, a full time blogger and growth hacker at MyUKMailBox. You can connect with him on Twitter and Linkedin.

After starting a blog, the main thing that comes to your mind is how to make your blog go viral.

Right?

It’s everyone dream to start a blog that attracts lots of attention. I remember the day when my blog went live: it was a special moment for me.

But it took lots of hardwork to make my blog visible. That’s why it’s very necessary to take important steps after starting a new blog because the activities that you carryout right from the launch day will determine the success of your blog.

In this post, I’ll guide you on the necessary steps you need to do after starting a blog in a step-by-step fashion…

1. Reserve Your Social Accounts

After writing a compelling blog post, promotion is very important to make your blog viral and get traffic on the blog.

For promoting your blog nothing is better than social media. So set up your account on all social media including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, and Google+ etc.

Making the account on social media ensures that you can easily choose your name before somebody else.

FeedBurner provides add-on service for your blog which helps you to track people who subscribe to your blog through RSS.

If people subscribe to your RSS feed so, they can easily read your blog content through email or use Google Reader.

So, never forget to setup FeedBurner for your blog to know your audience.

3. Setup Email Subscription

Email subscriptions are also an important part of any blog. It means people can subscribe to your blog via email and they get regular notifications so they don’t need to visit your blog or website, it’s a very convenient process.

If a person doesn’t want to miss an update on your blog, with email subscription, the content will be directly delivered to the person via email.

They would need to input their email in a form on your blog for them to get these regular update. A good example is the Blog For Profit Challenge optin form that looks like this:

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So getting a benefit of email subscription people need to put down their email in a special form for regular update.

An example subscription option can be found on the UK Parcel Forwarding site where they display the subscription form prominently and make it look like part of their site.

To get the benefit of email subscription to your blog you can use tools like Getresponse, which is free for the first 30 days.

4. Create a Lead Magnet

First, you should know that creating a strong email list is one of the best ways to get traffic on a blog.

Lead magnets are kind of tools through which you convince your visitors to provide their contact information, especially email.

The main task of the lead magnet is to grow the number of your subscriber by giving a different kind of service.

For grabbing the email of visitors you can provide services like e-books, free courses, planner, resources, software trial, PDF version, software training and much more.

If visitors subscribe to your services then you will easily get their email and then you can email them for new content, webinars, offers, and podcast that are being posted on your blog.

5. Add at least 10 Articles on the launch date

After starting a blog you should add at least 10 articles during launch date because:

First of all, it makes your blog look full.

From the first day, it gives good impact to the reader. If your blog has less than 5 article on launch date, it will make your blog weak and look like blank.

So add at least 10 articles on launch date and keep this quote in mind: “First impression is the last impression.”

6. Launch with Crowdspeaking

After setting up your blog and creating awesome content, it’s time to launch your products. After launching your products, continuous promotion is very necessary otherwise you cannot achieve the good result.

Using crowdspeaking platforms, you get huge promotion for your blog online.

Get this straight: crowdspeaking is different from crowdfunding in the manner that instead of resources we get likes and shares through social media.

It is a service that collects like-minded people to share one message, at the right time to their individual’s social media accounts. So, it will hear wide and far.

These platforms are the group of like-minded peoples thus if you want to promote your blog based on a particular niche you can share it with that same niche groups.

BetaList is one of the best online platforms that allow users to discover and fast access to the latest internet startups.

Your new blog is now part of the blogosphere with several million other blogs which means you have to stand out to get noticed. This is where platforms like BetaList helps.

It showcases your blog along with some other startups that trend on the site. This way, their community of early adopters, investors and regular users check out your blog and becomes a loyal reader.

8. Build up a Strong Profile on the Social Media and Share your Content with the 80-20 Rule

As listed above social media is best for promoting our brand. So, set up your genuine and strong profile on all social media and then follow or connect with people to share your content.

This is one of the best ways to make your content viral and get traffic to the blog.

Follow the 80-20 rule – In this rule, 80% of your outcomes come from 20% of your inputs. So, spend less time in creating content and spend more time to promoting them. Just follow this awesome rule in your blogging activity.

9. Start commenting on other blogs

As a blogger you have to do the lot of things like posting, social media, research, link building and much more.

But, what about blog commenting?

Many people still don’t know the importance of blog commenting on other blogs. If you start commenting on other blogs, it’ll will benefit you with a lot of things.

Here are some reasons why you should comment on other blogs:

Making your strong presence in blogosphere – To attract people to your blog you need to make your strong presence in the market. This rule is for every business and in blogging it is done by commenting on another blog. If you’re commenting on blogs related to your niche, you will get awesome backlinks.

Gain more opportunities – If you regularly comment on other blogs, you can know bloggers personally and this process will make them visit your blog and he/she will support your blog via guest posting or promote your blog content on social media. This is one of the best ways to attract readers and traffic.

Backlinks – Backlinks is very important for any blog. As based on backlinks you will improve your SERPs. If you want to get backlinks to your blog, start commenting on other blogs and start using comment luv plugin to get the do-follow link and anchor text.

10. Setup an auto-responder series

Setting up an auto-responder series benefits you in many ways. The auto-responder series is the awesome tool for making sales.

An auto-responder is a series of email that is automatically sent to your subscribers in a sequence order on certain pre-determined dates.

From auto-responder series you can send the message to your entire subscriber at the same time. This will help you to successfully build an email list and build the relationship with your subscriber.

Here are other benefits of autoresponder series:

Keeping in touch with subscribers.

Promoting affiliate products.

Promoting your own products.

These are the main strategies you should follow after starting your very first blog. Without implementing any of these strategies, it’ll be very difficult to make your blog success and get the better result.

Publishing a blog after a lot of research and hard work is worthless if you can’t get the expected response or traffic it’s true that content is king but we must promote that particular content or blog using multiple blog promotion platforms.

Any comments or questions?

If you have any additions, or questions, feel free to leave a comment. I’ll readily respond!

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Hello
Praveen and Cyrus,
Happy to read this awesome post. Am newbie in blogging and this post will help me a lot. Really, We should know all these tips after starting a blog. If anybody will follow these steps they can easily make their blog viral and get traffic.The step by step guides
are helpful, effective and easy to understand.